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Yes I would and I would look forward to it also. - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

Yes Yes YES! Any more questions? LOL - Nancy Nally

Yep Yep Yep. I'd love to hang around :) - Shankar Ganesh

I think it's a mistake to not start one Darren. Think of all the content ideas you could get from it. Ala searchenginerountable....via feedalizr - Jim Kukral

No, my attention is too divided as it is with social media and writing - Leslie Poston

I think it is a great idea, but you need a team of moderators who are truly democratic and open to controversial issue! If you start banning users because you do not agree with what they saying, it will be a negative backlash for Problogger! While I have all the confidence in Darren, but I cannot see Darren always moderating the forum. So unless Darren has a group of individuals who he can trust and delegate this authority, while at the same time supervising them, it is better not to do it! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

So Darren please ask yourself this question, "Do I have the proper resources to run a forum?" And resources means technology, people, and your own time and energy! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

FOLLOW UP QUESTION - what areas/topics would you like such a forum to cover (if you answer yes that is) - Darren Rowse

While I think a forum would work well on your site, because you have such a large and strong community already, Igor has a good point. The resources to run a forum are very different from running a blog. As for topics to cover. Look at http://forum.authorityblogger.com/ they have a good start for a blogging forum and topics. - LGR

Regarding the follow up question... I think it should cover all the obvious topics, like social media, SEO, affiliate programs, AdSense, etc. Another interesting forum would be an "ethics" forum or something along those lines, for people to discuss their views on the ethics of various promotion/monetisation strategies. - Eric Daams

I would love one, Darren. I think it could be a great place for bloggers to connect, find like-minded people, and have a place they feel they can have a voice with other bloggers. - Mark Frost

I think the topics should be Social Networking, SEO, Advertising, Writing Advice, Viral Marketing, and maybe some off-topic sections. Just promise to use vBulletin, Darren. - Mark Frost

I agree about the topics! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Cannot see why not...but could be difficult for you to moderate? - Luke Harvey-Palmer

What about a Wiki? Self moderating, would contain similar info to the forum? - Luke Harvey-Palmer

Who is going to write the wiki? Average Joe, same like Wikipedia? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Definitely. It would be a great resource for new, old and soon to be bloggers. - Patrick Britton

I go with the forum Webmasterworld, Lonelyplanet Tree! These are great communities! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Maybe Igor could write on the Wiki? - Luke Harvey-Palmer

No thank you! Did my Wiki days on Wikipedia! It is very hard to maintain an industry wiki unless you have professional editors. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I would probably decline if Darren asked me to be a moderator on the forum! It is a lot of work and you have to be impartial, fair, and respect all members beginners and advance! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I would love to see a forum on ProBlogger, but like many people who have already commented, I am concerned about whether ProBlogger has the resources to run one. - Riayn

Sure, I'd really like to use it too!! - Desi

I would sure visit it a few times a week. - Michael

I'd like to make one more point because I know Problogger is already a massive sort of community even without a forum, but there is no real way for a blogger to get sort of instant feedback from other bloggers about their progress. Take for instance if I wanted help developing my writing skills to connect more with readers or needed tips on how to be more creative, I could probably get feedback within minutes. - Mark Frost

I'm confident Darren can pull together a team to help. I moderate a large forum and would be willing to help or moderate a new ProBlogger forum as well. I'm a web designer, so could help on installing a forum too, if help was needed with that. - Traci Knoppe

Isn't that what we're using now... lol - Martin Jamieson

No thanks. There are plenty of forums for bloggers already. Too much UGC at problogger might allow Darren to retire completely and kill off the main blog itself. - Andy Roberts

Yes for a forum. Get a few forum users to moderate it. - Guinevere Orvis

If you make a forum, make sure you integrate the blog. Make it so that each of your blog posts spawns a thread in the forum where people can respond. Have the comments from your blog and the comments from the forum thread cross-pollinate, so that the discussion is complete. If you do this, there will be less of a wall between your blog and the forums. - Ed Healy

@Ed I'm not sure that's a good idea and that has been one of the things keeping Darren from making a ProBlogger forum in the past. I think if he makes a forum, the discussions should be separate from that of the blog and its posts as to not have the two interfere with each other. - Mark Frost

Is there a reason why tying them together would be bad? If the concern is whether forum posts will pollute the quality of the blog comments, one solution is to have the cross-pollination only go one way. IOW, have the blog populate forum threads (post only, no comments), so that people can discuss the blog in the forums, but stop the tie-in there. - Ed Healy

Yes, but only if you'd participate too. :) - Sarah Parker

I'm not a very big fan of forums. At least, not anymore. I think that the way things go on ProBlogger's FriendFeed Room and comments on the blog it's about right for my needs of communication. It seams I appreciate a lot more the simplicity of FF conversations. - Alex Cristache

The two comments I posted this morning (WordPress questions) are exactly the sort of thing that I would love a forum for! - Nancy Nally

Find like-minded people to interact with in one place. - Janette Toral